Re Sexual descriptions

[David Casseres]

Jean sez

>Feeling in a didactic mood, I must correct this perception that Forman's 
>film is a defense of Flynt as a pornographer.  The film revolves around
>Flynt's case regarding his magazine speaking ill of Jerry Falwell.  He
>was sued for libel and the case went to the Supreme Court, and was
>decided in Flynt's favor.  Unlikely as Flynt is as a hero, this was an
>important decision in maintaining 1st amendment rights here in the US of
>A.

Quite so.  But the hero of this story is not the pornographer Flynt but 
the American Civil Liberties Union and other actual civil libertarians 
who fought the case *in spite of* Flynt's principal identity as a 
low-life pornographer, as actual civil libertarians must of course do.

I didn't claim, after all, that Forman was defending Flynt as a 
pornographer; I said Forman was trying to canonize Flynt as a battler for 
liberty, which he never was.




Cheers,
David